Amazing Stories

One can't help but get inspired by these amazing true stories, which prove the human spirit is both resilient and selfless.

Share Your True Story We're looking for a few men and women who have experienced significant setbacks.

Scents and Sensibility She whipped up beauty products in her kitchen, but to grow the business, she had to get out of the house.

Jungle Rescue Willie Smits is on a mission to save the endangered orangutan. It's a straight vine from its survival to ours.

Portrait of My Father as a Young Man I remembered my father only in fragments. My mother re-created him for me.

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1 A Father's Farewell
Before his life drew to a close, Randy Pausch revealed in an interview and a book excerpt what matters most.
2 Save Your Own Life
How a chair, rocks, aspirin, and a scarf can keep you alive in 12 do-or-die emergencies.
3 My Family's No-Buy Experiment
We ended up richer, but not in the way we expected.

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118 Distinguished Men and Women Talk About the People Who Inspre Them Most
What better time of year to say thanks? Here, a group of distinguished men and women talk about who has inspired them most.
2Heist: The Case of the Stolen Rembrandt
Three years ago, a little painting caused big trouble for undercover agent Bob Wittman. Here, for the first time, he tells all.
3Interview With Ted Turner
The business mogul talks about his new book, Call Me Ted, and about overcoming troubles, both public and private, to build a successful empire.
4Best of America: Highway Helper
Stopping and helping others is this man's self-satisfying vocation.

Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past

This is America at its most fascinating--more than 600 true stories as gripping as a whodunit, as fast paced as a spy chase, as atmospheric as a historical novel--guaranteed to give many hours of reading pleasure.

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